Starting from the idea according to which multiculturalism discloses the problems of the tradition of citizenship and resorting to the notion of multicultural citizenship, the paper seeks to interrogate citizenship in its more traditional forms by means of conceptual and theoretical reframes, identifying some scenarios of expression of multicultural citizenship; in order to return to the idea of the intercultural citizenship and grasp the dynamics of its realization and operation in our current modern societies. Then, the article evidences the fact that the traditional notion of citizenship does not have sufficient resources to manage the new social phenomena related to the multiculturalism’s expressions that have to do with new identities, cultures, traditional views, knowledge, etc., within the framework of the new dynamics of the basic institutions of modernity, such as the State and the market, as well as some complex, modern, postcolonial and postmodern mutations. Thus, the dissertation rethinks intercultural citizenship as a category of analysis of our contemporary societies whose complexities are reflected increasingly through the interconnections between the local and the global.
keywords:
Multicultural citizenship, intercultural citizenship, interculturality, cultural pluralism, current societies.
